Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1887-09-16

Gen. Butler, in professional income,
heads the list OF Boston's 400 lawyers.
His practice nets him over 800, 600 year.
Baron Ettenne de Zuylen de Nivelt de
Harr is the full style and title of the i'm
pecunious Flemish nohieman who has
Just become the bus band OF the $50 600, 900
daughter of the House Of Rothschild.
Charles Dickens, jr, who is to lecture
in this country, is wholly unlike what the
public would expect in IA son of Boz. His
round face and rat her feeble features are
scarcely redeemed by a large pair of spec
tacles, and in his delivery he has neither
physical or dramatic power
Invitations are said to be pouring in
upon Eugene Higgins from enthusiastic
democratic communities in the West,
where he l. accepted as IA representative
democrat.
\ spondent of the Evening Post
says that If Colonel +. ID. Grant is nom
mated for secretary of state by the repub-
leans of New York, it may lead to a pres
identlal ticket Of Lincoln aud Grant IN
lSSS.
The socialists who were kicked out of
the Henry George ranks have decided to
be hereafter known as the progressive
labor party.
The Mass aChusetts democrats would
renominstc John +. Andrew As their can
didate for governor this year, but that
gentleman wisely declines to let them use
him agnlu. He has had all the experience
he wants in that line for some time to
come.
Another ,hALore sahib, Sir Waghee of
MOrvi, is in New York, and will travel
| A.,
| sive for an Indian prince reads scientific
| papers, hH, u railroad in his province, and
| is trying to introduce all the modern i'm
proyementS. He is a bigger man than the
other th6Eore sshib of Limdl, who is also
seeing our country.
Prof. Wheeler, who resigned the pro-
fessorship of Latin in Bowdoin to accept
the profe-sOrship of the same department
in the University of Virginia, has been
compelled 10 resign there, owing 10 heart
trouble. He is now at NeWbury.
Hon. James Miller of Bethel, Vt, died
suddenly Mt Saratoga Springs, September
| &. He va, senator from Windsor county
in the legislature of 1852, and was highly
respected Ivy all who knew him. He was
| 81 years of age.
Mr.. Geo ge B. NJ Harvey, who went
| from Peacham, Vt, has bought the New
ark Ercniag journal and has associated
with him Mir. X. y. Perkins, who was two
or three yeals ago managing editor of the
| Rutland IiCrdld.
A number Of Robert Louis Stevenson 5
stories are said to have been suggested to
him by dreams. lie found the origin of
that remarkable tale, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr..
| Hyde" III sleep, after eating Il Welsh
rarebit.
| Gen. Longstreet is writing a book on the
war. As he liui hes chapter he sends
! the manuscript to Washington to have all
dates and figures verified from the official
records. He says: Il expect both sides TO
| pitch into ne, and am taking time to be
certain of all my statements The vol
ume will no doubt create much discussion.
Mrs. Jackson's romance Ramona" APP
pears to have affected the imagination of
new settlers in Southern California. One
colony and several towns have been
named Ramona, while a new colony near
Pomona has been called Allesandro.
George w. Gable will this fall take
charge Of the great Sunday-schOol union
Bible class in fremont Temple, Boston,
succeeding Rev. DR.. Meredith, who goes
to Brooklyn.